Lazy Sunday (The Lonely Island song)
Lazy Sunday is a music video starring Saturday Night Live cast members Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg that aired on the December 17, 2005, episode of the show.
The film, set in New York City, shows Parnell and Samberg performing a rap about buying cupcakes at the Magnolia Bakery and going to see the movie The Chronicles of Narnia. It quickly became popular among Internet communities for its memorable one-liners.
While Parnell, an eight year veteran of SNL, was a well-established performer on the show (he had even rapped several times during segments on Weekend Update), Samberg, like most featured players, had made little impact before "Lazy Sunday", which proved to be a breakout for him.
Making of the film
Samberg's fellow members of The Lonely Island were involved in the making of the film, which is presented in widescreen. Akiva Schaffer directed the clip and Jorma Taccone created the musical beat. All three plus Parnell wrote the script on December 12, 2005. The music was recorded on December 13, and on December 15 the crew filmed the short in about five hours using the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in the Chelsea district of Manhattan as a stand-in for a movie theater and casting Taccone's girlfriend's sister as a convenience store clerk.
Samberg thought audiences would criticize its low budget style, cheesy lyrics, and product placements, but Internet prevalence and continued downloads suggest it is gaining popularity on par with "More Cowbell", a 2000 SNL skit starring Christopher Walken.
References in the song
- "I love those cupcakes like McAdams loves Gosling" A reference to Hollywood couple Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling and their on-screen romance in the 2004 film, The Notebook.
- "The Chronic - what? - cles of Narnia" "Chronic" or "the chronic" is slang for marijuana. The Chronic is also the name of Dr. Dre's highly influential solo debut. The yelling out of what? was popularized by rapper/producer Lil Jon.
- "Mr. Pibb and Red Vines equal crazy delicious." This line has led to t-shirts displaying the two products with the saying. Mr. Pibb and Red Vines can be consumed together by biting off both ends of a Red Vine and using it as a straw.
- "Girl acted like she never seen a ten befo'/It's all about the Hamiltons, baby" "Hamiltons" are U.S. ten-dollar bills, so called because they contain a portrait of Alexander Hamilton (a reference to rappers who say "Benjamins" as slang for hundred-dollar bills). The line is a takeoff of the Puff Daddy song "It's All about the Benjamins."
- "I'm ghost like Swayze" A reference to the 1990 film Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze. "Swayze" has been used in rap music as a synonym for "disappear", popularized by EPMD in the early 1990s.
- "You can call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons" This refers to the 1804 duel in which Burr killed Alexander Hamilton.
- "What Friends alum starred in films with Bruce Willis?" Matthew Perry, who starred with Willis in The Whole Nine Yards and The Whole Ten Yards.
- "Google maps is the best" A reference to to Google's popular mapping service, believed by Samberg to be more accurate than Yahoo Maps or Mapquest.
Trivia
The man who walks in front of Magnolia Bakery during the film is Donald Burns, one of the bakers at the famous bakery.
Several West Coast comedians produced "Lazy Monday" a rap battle-style response to "Lazy Sunday". In it, Mark Feuerstein, Sam Friedlander and Adam Stein go to a Color Me Mine make-your-own pottery shop and get some coffee.
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